Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Expect Wolves coach John Anderson to make the leap to the NHL very soon.

The AHL's regular season MVP, Jason Krog, was terrific in this one, scoring a hat trick and adding an assist to finish the playoffs with 12 goals and 38 points in 24 games. Krog was also named playoff MVP.

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Also, I guess the mustaches worked. Did you see the porno 'staches the Wolves had? Awesomeness. Some of the players, with the hockey hair and 'staches, looked like they were sent via time machine straight outta 1979.

The commentators tonight derided the big team (at around the 14 minute mark of the third) by saying thinks like, "if they had called up some of these guys, they wouldn't have missed the playoffs", and "I don't know what they were thinking". Correct me if I'm wrong about that, but if I remember that correctly, it can't help the Wolves announcers get a call-up to ATL or any other NHL job, can it?

Logan: Anderson works for his GM, Kevin Cheveldayoff, who in turn works for Wolves ownership. Who the coach uses on the affiliate team, given the arrangement the Thrashers have with an independent organization, isn't always up to the NHL club.

You can't blame Anderson for that. Atlanta should focus on finding someone who can win them some games behind the bench.

The Wolves are a good team, but they played really dirty. They really didn't even win fairly.

1) Game 1 should have been tied. Nathan Smith's foot didn't move an inch when the puck bounced off of it, and, of course, no replay to be found.2) Game 4 should have had the Penguins with another goal. Still, no one knows the reason why they didn't, and the officials were even confused.3)For Game 6: I really don't think a goal should count if the opposing team's player trips over the goalie and is lying in the net with his stick hooked into the net.

I've always been really confused by Krog. I thought he was a great role player for the Ducks in their '03 run, and if you look at his stats, he's basically done nothing but dominate the AHL ever since then (if he hasn't led the AHL in points in the past five years, he's usually been a close second or third). But yet I haven't seen him get called up, or even talk of it. Is it just that he's plagued by size, like the Ferraro twins were? One would think that a team like the Thrashers could use all the offensive help they could get ...

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A sportswriter at The Globe and Mail, James covers the NHL and the game of hockey. He is a member of the Professional Hockey Writers' Association, a radio and TV analyst with TSN and was the NHL network manager at SB Nation from 2008 to 2010. A graduate of Thompson Rivers and Ryerson universities, James grew up in Kamloops, B.C. — one of Canada's great hockey cities — and was a season ticket holder in the Blazers' glory years.

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